Madeleine Wood

Madeleine obtained her PhD from the University of Warwick, where she also worked as a tutor, before moving to Brunel in 2012. She has also been a member of the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education tutor panel since 2010.

Madeleine has published in the fields of Victorian literature, psychoanalytic and gender theory, and modernism. Her publications include a recent article in Dickens Studies Annual. She is currently finishing her first monograph, Traumatic Encounters: Parents and Children in the Mid-Victorian Novel.

Research Overview

Madeleine’s research interests include Victorian literature; the novel genre, from the eighteenth century to modernism; comparative literature; Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalysis; gender theory; trauma studies; and addiction narratives from the Romantic period onwards.

Teaching Activity

This year Madeleine is teaching ‘Romanticism and Revolution’; ‘The Nineteenth-Century Novel’; The Women’s Movement’; ‘Victorian Literature and Culture’; ‘Approaches to Poetry and Prose’; and ‘Thinking about Literature’. She is also supervising special projects in the fields of Victorian literature, and women’s contemporary writing.